Eighth group of #WCEU speakers – Business & Freelance

Eighth group of #WCEU speakers – Business & Freelance

We’d like to present our next group of speakers and workshops to you. This group will cover the ever-important business side of WordPress, and freelancing. Take a look at the previous speaker announcements for #WCEU to see who else will be joining us.


Noel Tock

Noel TockNoel is one of the partners at Human Made, responsible for many of the growth activities surrounding future revenue – including product development, marketing, business development and other key sales initiatives.

[Talk] WordPress in 2019


Christie Chirinos

Christie ChirinosChristie Chirinos is one of the co-owners and the business development lead at Caldera Labs, a plugin company best known for its popular contact form plugin, Caldera Forms. Christie started making websites at the age of 14, and before joining Caldera Labs did everything from selling items on eBay to leading website re-launch projects for major nonprofit organizations. Christie recently received her Master of Business Administration degree and is currently based out of New York City.

[Talk] Financial Forecasting for WordPress Product Businesses


Karim Marucchi

Karim MarucchiKarim leads Crowd Favorite & has been contributing to, the WordPress community for the last 7 years. He is passionate about finding innovative ways to help digital professionals in the midst of hyper-growth or in significant transitions grow in the Open Source Community. His career has included founding startups, working for large web agencies. He loves figuring out how to make diverse teams work as a cohesive unit.

[Talk] Going from freelancing to building a team


Davide Casali

Davide CasaliDavide Casali, known as “Folletto”, is a product design director and startup advisor. He has an hybrid background in design, psychology, business, and technology. He designs to change for better people’s quality of life. In his 15+ years of experience he worked for global and local companies across different industries (finance, luxury, fashion, telco, news) in B2C, B2B and enterprise collaboration. In the past 4 years he was involved in WordPress.com and multiple WordPress releases.

[Talk] Mastering Feedback: You, the Team, the Product


Mauricio Gelves

Mauricio GelvesMauricio Gelves is a Software Engineer, works as Freelancer Web Consultant and as GoDaddy Pro Brand Evangelist. He’s Digital Nomad since 2015, this activity combines his two biggest passions: Information Technologies and Travelling. Registers all his experiences with articles and videos you can read and follow in the blog of his website maugelves.com.

[Lightning Talk] Follow these 10 steps to become a Freelancer with WordPress


Krešimir Končić

Kresimir KoncicKrešimir is the founder and director of Neuralab, a team that produces eCommerce web applications for 10 years now. He worked on (probably) all types of WordPress projects including national banks, civic organisations or enterprise clients. Most of these WordPress projects took a lot of hair to finish and that will be the topic of his workshop – Lifecycle of a WordPress project. His free time is filled with cooking, reading and writing. You can see his columns at Neuralab blog or similar media, but note that most of them will be about web development and not cooking, sorry 😉

[Workshop] Lifecycle of a WordPress project


Due to the limited space available for each workshop, we recommend you get your ticket to WCEU now to not miss out on the workshop signup (opening soon).

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